NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 540M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460M 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (60.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 460M +100%

0.518 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 540M

0.258 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460M

VS

GeForce GT 540M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 400M

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

625 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

2

-

Compute Units

-

192

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

16

24

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.688 GPixel/s

21.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

518.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

258.0 GFLOPS

43.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

21.50 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

GF108

N11E-GS-A1

GPU Variant

N12P-GS-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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